70 N.C. App. 747 - State v. Spears’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1996
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Ahearn · State v. Covington · State v. Jones · State v. Britt · State v. Monk
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The scope of the arguments to the jury is in the sound discretion of the trial judge and his ruling will not be disturbed except upon a finding of prejudicial error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.